Ivan Y. Petrov

Ivan Yefimovich Petrov (18 September 1896-7 April 1958) was a General of the Army of the Soviet Red Army who commanded the 2nd Belorussian Front and 4th Ukrainian Front during World War II.

Biography
Ivan Yefimovich Petrov was born on 18 September 1896 in Trubchevsk, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire. He joined the Red Army and the Bolsheviks in 1918, and he fought in the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War, and the Basmachi Revolt, and he served in Central Asia during the 1920s and 1930s. During World War II, he served in Odessa, Sevastopol, and southern Ukraine and Russia, and he took command of the Soviet 44th Army in late 1942. He also led the 2nd Belorussian Front and the 4th Ukrainian Front before ending the war as the Chief-of-Staff of the 1st Ukrainian Front. On 29 May 1945, he was granted the honor of being named "Hero of the Soviet Union", and he became Inspector-General of Land Forces and commander of the Turkestan Military District after the war. He died in Moscow in 1958.